The White Falcon - 30.09.1977, Síða 1

A FRENCH CONCORD SST landed at the NATO base Tuesday attracting curiosity
seekers and shutter bugs from throughout the NATO Base and surrounding area.
The controversial aircraft was chartered by a Spanish Wholesale firm to provide
98 winners of a publicity campaign with a tour of Iceland. The plane, which
arrived here at 9:50 a.m. departed the same day at 1:10 in the afternoon.
Photos By PH3 Vic Caffaro
Volume 33 Number 39
Keflavik, Iceland
September 30, 1977
New look in enlisted housing
Naval Station accepts three apartment buildings
NEW ENLISTED QUARTERS were officially accepted from the Icelandic Prime Con-
tractor by the Naval Station Monday. Personnel will begin moving into the new
apartments on Oct. 3.
Carnival Booth response high
Initial response to the request for
Carnival Booth sponsors has been
excellent, according to Maj. John Meyer,
Carnival Operations Chairman, who
reports that approximately 75 or 80
available booth spaces have been spoken
for*
A perplexing question has apeared
tho.ugh. Free enterprisers of the NATO
Base, where are you? So far, no
requests have been received for flea
market booths, and you just might be
missing your chance to market your wares
to the largest single crowd that gathers
on the NATO Base. If the $60 booth
rental fee for Flea Marketeers is
holding you back, consider sharing the
booth (and overhead expense) with a
friend or two. By lowering your
overhead and increasing the products
available, you increase your sales
potential manyfold. All profits from
the booth are yours to keep.
Cdr. Bruce Maxon, Carnival Chairman,
informs us that one of the major
challenges remaining to be met for this
year’s Carnival is that of obtaining
volunteer workers to put it all
together, run it for nine hours and take
it down. "We can promise the volunteers
three things," said Maxon, " and they
are: hard work, our gratitude, and a
deep sense of accomplishment as they
look around them on Carnival Day."
If you can wield a hammer, and spare
a few hours to help build booths on
Oct. 27 and 28, Ltjg. A1 Jensen,
Construction Chairman would like to hear
from you at 4689 (work) or 4451 (home).
Or, if your volunteer talents are more
administrative, please contact Ens. Bill
Harris, Sales and Promotion Chairman at
5119 (work) or 5165 (home.) Because he
needs volunteers to sell an anticipated
100,000 tickets during the Carnival,
and to count receipts the following day.
We asked one man in uniform, who we
knew was doing a one-year unaccompanied
tour in Iceland, why he had volunteered
to help with the "Parent-Teacher
Organization Carnival, and his reply
echoed exactly the spirit in which
volunteers are being solicited. "Well,
I'm not a "P"," he said, "and obviously
not a "T", but helping this "0" is
going to give me one day to remember in
my tour up here."
Won't you help too?
PTO Carnival
The PTO Carnival Committee ask
that all booth sponsors provide a
representative to the Concessionnaire's
meeting to be held on Wednesday, Oct. 5,
at 8 p.m. in the high school Multi-
purpose room (location of meeting has
not yet been confirmed).
Among the topics to be discussed at
the meeting are: booth location/layout,
ticket handling, and booth construction
guidance.
If your organization has questions,
bring them along, and the carnival
committee will try to answer them before
the evening is ended.
A new chapter in enlisted housing
availability opened under sunny skies
Monday when the Naval Station accepted
three newly constructed apartment
buildings. Never before in the history
of U.S. Forces in Iceland has the out-
look for enlisted housing looked so
promising.
The three new buildings contain a
total of 48 apartments, 18 two-bedroom
and 30 four-bedroom, and reflect ex-
cellent taste in modern architecture,
color coding, and landscaping.
The complex, which overlooks scenic
Keflavik and the Atlantic is complete
with a courtyard, parking area and
protected play area for children.
Utilitiesman Second Class Peter
Wallace and Radioman Second Class
Andrew Skrobanski will share the honor
of being the first families to move
into the complex on Oct. 3.
The buildings accepted Monday
were only three of a total of 11
enlisted apartment buildings being
constructed by the Icelandic Prime
Contractors at a cost of $17 million.
When all 11 buildings are completed they
Once again the uoD Combined Federal
Campaign Overseas Area seeks 100 percent
support by asking each of us to "Make
someone happy" by helping the 13
International Service Agencies build a
better world for all people at home and
overseas.
Your contributions to the Inter-
national Service Agencies enable them to
provide welfare, recreation and social
health assistance to servicemen and
women, including you and your family.
In addition, these non-profit, voluntary
agencies aid millions of men, women and
children all over the world who suffer
from hunger, poverty and disease.
International Service Agencies provide
vital relief and offer programs of re-
habilitation and self-help to assist the
needy to help themselves.
The DoD-approved agencies that need
will contain 70 two-bedroom and 114
four-bedroom apartments for a total of
184 apartments.
Lieutenant Ronald R. Hudson,
Assistant Public Works Officer, stated
that in addition to the three buildings
that were accepted Monday they expect
to accept three more in December, three
in March and the final two in May.
When asked how will the three new
buildings affect the housing list and,
secondly, how will the total project
affect the housing list, Lt. Hudson
responded, "The three (building accepted
Monday) will virtually elimate the
housing waiting list, depending upon
how many people come in between now and
December.’ But the ones (buildings to be
accepted) that come in December will
definitely eliminate any waiting time
for enlisted personnel."
Lt. Hudson also said that, "The
construction and what's being done in
housing is in direct compliance with the
1974 Memorandum of Understanding between
the governments of the United States and
Iceland which requires all sponsored
military families to live on station."
your support in order to continue to
provide humanitarian services for nearly
40 million people the world over are:
CARE, International Rescue Committee,
the National Recreation and Park
Association, Project HOPE, WAIF (Travel-
ers Aid-International Social Health
Association, Overseas Courcils-Boy
Scouts of America, The American Kor-
Asian Foundation, Overseas Affiliates-
Girl Scouts of the U. S. A., Save the
Children Federation, U.S.O. (United
Service Organizations), and Planned
Parenthood/World Population.
Contributions may be made through
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the agencies to receive your donations
during the campaign period which runs
from Sept. 15 through Oct. 31, 1977.
Combined Federal Campaign hits base
MK*'W
HCO.S
Pay raise7.05 per cent
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